The Protracted Conflict

JAMES BURNHAM

In a letter to the London Times, Robert Conquest notes that one of the charges against Aleksandr Ginzburg was that he had “distributed” Conquest’s book, The Great Terror. This was a crime because, in the judgment of the prosecutor and court, the book is a slander against the Soviet state. The Great Terror is a carefully documented history of Stalin’s purge trials. Scholars, both Left and Right, throughout the non-Communist world consider it the most thorough study of its subject. Moreover, Conquest’s account parallels and in part coincides with the exposure of Stalin’s action made by Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet spokesmen in the 1960s.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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JAMES BURNHAM

In a letter to the London Times, Robert Conquest notes that one of the charges against Aleksandr Ginzburg was that he had “distributed” Conquest’s book, The Great Terror. This was a crime because, in the judgment of the prosecutor and court, the book is a slander against the Soviet state. The Great Terror is a carefully documented history of Stalin’s purge trials. Scholars, both Left and Right, throughout the non-Communist world consider it the most thorough study of its subject. Moreover, Conquest’s account parallels and in part coincides with the exposure of Stalin’s action made by Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet spokesmen in the 1960s.